{"id":5588,"date":"2012-10-13T20:36:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T10:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=5588"},"modified":"2024-07-07T05:48:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T19:48:49","slug":"mothers-mercury-levels-linked-to-development-of-adhd-in-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=5588","title":{"rendered":"Mother\u2019s Mercury Levels Linked to Development of ADHD in Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MercuryAndADHD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5589\" title=\"Mercury And ADHD Symptoms\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MercuryAndADHD-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"Mercury And ADHD Symptoms\" width=\"808\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MercuryAndADHD-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MercuryAndADHD.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nKids having these symptoms could have nothing whatever to do with mercury in vaccines of course.<br \/>\nMother\u2019s Mercury Levels Linked to Development of ADHD in Kids<br \/>\nGovernment agencies\u2019 warnings to pregnant women about limiting fish consumption may be due for an update. A new study found that children of women with high mercury levels were 40 to 70 percent likely to exhibit symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. On the other hand, symptoms of ADHD in kids were less likely to show when women ate a lot of fish during pregnancy. Because many of us assume fish and mercury go hand in hand, this appears to be a paradox.<br \/>\n\u201cFish consumption doesn\u2019t necessarily correlate with mercury levels,\u201d says study co-author Susan Korrick, an assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital of the Harvard School of Public Health. \u201cYou could eat a high amount of fish that are low in mercury.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids having these symptoms could have nothing whatever to do with mercury in vaccines of course. Mother\u2019s Mercury Levels Linked to Development of ADHD in Kids Government agencies\u2019 warnings to pregnant women about limiting fish consumption may be due for an update. A new study found that children of women with high mercury levels were &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=5588\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mother\u2019s Mercury Levels Linked to Development of ADHD in Kids&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55379,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5588\/revisions\/55379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}